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Creative Struggles: Analysing the Potential and Problematics of Re-Radicalised Participatory Development Through Theatre for Development

Bobby Smith
University of Leeds, MA Theatre and Global Development (2012), 60 pp.
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Humanitarian Campaigns in Social Media: Network Architectures and Polymedia Events

Mirca Madianou
Journalism Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2012), pp. 249-266
"Social media and social networking sites (SNS) in particular have become popular in current humanitarian campaigns. This article assesses the optimism surrounding the opportunities that SNS communication offers for humanitarian action and for the cultivation of cosmopolitan sensibilities. In order ... more
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Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile

Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.
"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo ... more
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Theatre for Development: A Tanzanian Road Towards Citizenship and Cultural Renewal

Hilde Kvam
Journal of Urban Culture Research, volume 5 (2012), pp. 44-52
"During the 60s, Theatre for Development was introduced into several states in Africa. The focus at that time was to utilize theatre as a tool of communication in development projects. During the 80s Tanzania developed their own variant of this genre through the initiative of the University of Dar e ... more
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Comparing Development Communication

Jan Servaes
In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research
Frank Esser, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 64-80
"The study of communication for development and social change has been through several paradigmatic changes during the past decades. From modernization and growth theory to the dependency approach and the participatory model, the new traditions of discourse are now characterized by a turn towards lo ... more
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Quality Assurance Toolkit for Open and Distance Non-Formal Education

Colin Latchem
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), ix, 99 pp.
"Quality assurance (QA) systems applied in educational contexts are generally concerned with inputs — how much money is spent, what staffing, resources and support are provided, what kinds of teaching and learning are involved, and so on. There is an assumption — not always fulfilled — that th ... more
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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.
"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr ... more
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Representações midiáticas da pobreza: O programa "Esquenta!" e o reposicionamento do discurso sobre os pobres na TV brasileira

Francislanda Rodrigues Penha
Goiânia: Universidade Federal de Goiás, Master Thesis (2012), 229 pp.
"A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a rede simbólica de enunciados construídos ao longo da história acerca das categorias pobre/pobreza e, mais precisamente, discutir os recentes discursos produzidos sobre esses grupos no âmbito da televisão brasileira, encontrando as continuidades e ... more
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Extending the Learning Community: Rural Radio, Social Learning and Farm Productivity in Ghana

Olumide Taiwo, Emmanuel Asmah
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2012), 20 pp.
"This paper examines the potential role of indigenous knowledge sharing through rural FM radio stations in Ghanaian agriculture. To identify social learning effects, we examine crop productivity trends and their association with participation in radio programs, and compare the strength of these asso ... more
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Guidelines for Local Government Biodiversity Communication

ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center (2012), 5 pp.
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Comunicación para el cambio social: Universidad, sociedad civil y medios

Iñaki Chaves Gil (coord.)
Madrid: Catarata (2012), 160 pp.
"¿Qué comunicación nos enseñan en la universidad? ¿Cuál nos brindan los medios? ¿Qué es la comunicación? ¿Y el cambio social? ¿Tienen sentido juntos? ¿Qué comunicación practican las ONGD? ¿Necesitamos un nuevo comunicador? ¿Reconocemos el papel de las radios comunitarias en la comuni ... more
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Media Meets Climate: The Global Challenge for Journalism

Elisabeth Eide, Risto Kunelius (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2012), 340 pp.
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The Right to be Heard. The Responsibility to Listen: Mainstreaming BC in IFRC

infoasaid; Internews; BBC Media Action (2012), 30 pp.
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Integrating Low-Cost Video Into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
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Josh Woodard
USAID; FHI 360 (2012), xiv, 196 pp.
"Using low-Cost videos within your agricultural development project can be an effective way for increasing the scale of your activities by leveraging the expertise of local experts and farmers for a broader audience. Since the videos may be created in the field by your staff, the cost will be lower ... more
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Communication for Development Interventions in Fragile States: A Systematic Review. Summary Version

Andrew Skuse, Dianne Rodger, Gerry Power, Domenic Friguglietti, Tait Brimacombe
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU) (2012), 39 pp.
"This review identifies that while different initiatives can be pursued in different conflict situations, their direction and content needs to be driven by a close understanding of context, which in turn is driven by a range of influencing factors (contextual and programmatic), which in turn reflect ... more
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Behaviour Change Communication Targeting Four Health Behaviours in Developing Countries: A Review of Change Techniques

Ciara Briscoe, Frances Aboud
Social Science & Medicine, volume 75 (2012), pp. 612-621
"Behaviour change communication is vital for increasing the enactment of particular behaviours known to promote health and growth. The techniques used to change behaviour are important for determining how successful the intervention is. In order to integrate findings from different interventions, we ... more
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C­Modules: A Learning Package for Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC)
Key Guides

Washington, DC: C-Change; FHI 360; USAID (2012), 248 pp.
"C-Change has created this learning package for facilitated, face-to-face workshops on social and behavior change communication (SBCC). The package includes a series of six modules. The Introduction Module outlines all five steps of C-Planning (see graphic to the right). It also provides an overview ... more
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CDAC Haiti: Learning Review

Cecilia M. Ljungman
Ohain: CDAC Network; Channel Research (2012), 88 pp.
"In the immediate aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the CDAC (Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities) Network undertook its first ever ground initiative. This initiative, which came to be known as CDAC Haiti, was funded largely through the OCHA’s ERRF with some additiona ... more
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Towards a framework of sustainability indicators for ‘communication for development and social change’ projects

Jan Servaes, Emily Polk, Song Shi, Danielle Reilly, Thanu Yakupitijage
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-123
"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in ... more
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"Africa Talks Climate": Comparing Audience Understandings of Climate Change in Ten African Countries

Anna Godfrey, Miriam Burton, Emily LeRoux-Rutledge
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 504-520